The battery used to start the auxiliary power unit (APU) on the Japan Airlines (JAL) Boeing 787 that caught fire did not overcharge, according to an investigation update released by the US National Transportation Safety Board.

An investigation has been launched after an Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus A340 and an Air France Boeing 777-300 collided at Miami International Airport.

Airbus, which said the A380’s order book comprises 262 firm orders from 20 customers, acknowledged India’s Kingfisher Airlines order for five of the type “looks shaky.”

The A380 program is on track to breakeven in 2015, Airbus CEO Fabrice Brégier told ATW on the sidelines of the results conference in Toulouse.

A lithium ion battery on the All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 that made an emergency landing this week was badly burned, Japanese investigators said.

Qantas has ordered three new Bombardier Q400s and plans to lease five more Boeing 717s, but it has canceled one Boeing 787 in a move unrelated to its grounding.

Irish lessor Avolon will form a joint venture (JV) with Wells Fargo to operate an aircraft leasing business, named Avolon Capital Partners (ACP).

Russia’s Transaero Airlines has continued to ground its three Tupolev Tu-214s even though they passed airline safety tests.